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George Salverson had written over a thousand radio plays for the CBC before he became the first television drama editor for the corporation. He wrote scripts for such beloved series as The Beachcombers and The Littlest Hobo, but he kept very little of his writing, being decidedly unsentimental about his work. So when his daughter Julie found a series of notebooks from a round-the-world trip he’d taken in 1963 to work on a documentary about world hunger, she knew she’d found something important. But the writer of these notebooks is not the father she thought she knew. From there Julie Salverson traces a fascinating web of personal and political history, of storytelling, of culture and it’s shaping and of a man caught in a time of great change.

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""[Salverson] advances an original and nuanced perspective, inviting her audience along on her investigative journey into the protracted and prolonged violence enacted on the Northwest Territories' Dene people of Déline [. . .] All the while, Salverson ruminates openly on what it means to bear witness to environmental injustice, violence, and trauma, and affords her audience insight into the process of unearthing embodied knowledge in the name of ethically rendering testimony and confronting grief."" -- ""The Goose on Lines of Flight"" ""Her excursion takes her into some of the darkest reaches of recent history, but also illuminates the human spirit with hope and humour."" -- ""Quill & Quire on Lines of Flight""

"""[Salverson] advances an original and nuanced perspective, inviting her audience along on her investigative journey into the protracted and prolonged violence enacted on the Northwest Territories' Dene people of D�line [. . .] All the while, Salverson ruminates openly on what it means to bear witness to environmental injustice, violence, and trauma, and affords her audience insight into the process of unearthing embodied knowledge in the name of ethically rendering testimony and confronting grief."" - The Goose on Lines of Flight ""Her excursion takes her into some of the darkest reaches of recent history, but also illuminates the human spirit with hope and humour."" - Quill & Quire on Lines of Flight"

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Julie Salverson is a nonfiction writer, playwright, editor, scholar and theatre animator. She is a fourth-generation Icelandic Canadian writer: her father George wrote early CBC radio and television drama and her grandmother Laura won two Governor General Awards (1937,1939). Julie's theatre, opera, books and essays embrace the relationship of imagination and foolish witness to risky stories and trauma. She works on atomic culture, community-engaged theatre and the place of the foolish witness in social, political and inter-personal generative relationships. Salverson offers resiliency and peer-support workshops to communities dealing with trauma and has many years of experience teaching and running workshops. Recent publications include the book When Words Sing: Seven Canadian Libretti (Playwrights Canada Press, 2021) and Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir (Wolsak & Wynn, 2016).

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